fusil

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The Zeg-zeg troops had one French fusil, and the Kano force forty-one muskets.

From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Cotgrave has arquebuse à fusil, "a snaphaunce," and explains fusil as "a fire-steele for a tinder-box."

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

The fusil is like the lozenge, but narrower.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony